Nature reveals a stream of creativity that you can embody in your life. Whether you’re an artist facing creative blocks or someone who yearns to feel more creatively alive, this workshop is designed to awaken your creativity through the inspirations of the natural world.  

Film director, mindfulness teacher and nature therapy guide Sylvie Rokab invites you to open your senses and commune with the magnificent Esalen land and the Big Sur coastline. Suspend disbelief. Perceive the sentience, playfulness, brilliance, and magic in every being that calls to your attention — towering trees, melodic birds, flowy clouds, hypnotic waves, and the playful sea otters barking nearby.

Sylvie welcomes you on Monday night with a screening of her award-winning film Love Thy Nature followed by a Q&A. Throughout the week, she will guide you on a path. You’ll shed your self-limiting beliefs and creative blocks. You’ll  uncover your potential for creative expressions in your life and with Nature as the ultimate muse — for poetry, storytelling, music, gardening, cooking, photography, filmmaking, computer coding, or other creative expressions.

Activities include:

• Communion with Esalen’s beings, land and sea
• Practice of deep sharing / deep listening in groups
• Mindfulness of Nature (inner, outer, and relational)
• Guided meditations
• Creative explorations of your choice – poetry, storytelling, music, body movement, photography etc.
• A mid-week excursion to the glorious Julia Pfeiffer State Park

Join this workshop and ignite the creative flow that seeks to emerge through you.